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video from: California Academy of Sciences

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

The creatures

It looks like one of the boyfriends could fit in Reg’s bed

Ratchet’s fins get more ridiculous everytime I see them, I love them. The irl car has fins that bend down right? Instead of going straight into the sky?

Proper refs + scale! Austin is the same height as Doc but has a slightly shorter wheelbase. He's also got no sideskirts and is a total cutie when he smiles.

Ratchet was shortened by his father figure and mechanic, Rundown, to lose weight and improve handling. He's still quite a lengthy car. His numberplate says "L8R".

Reg is just enormous but not quite truck scale, and has a lot of old bullet wounds from the wars and peeled paint from decades in high UV sunlight. His tray is made from Jarrah wood and he built it himself.

So I’m listening to the Rogue Protocol audiobook (it was the one that didn’t have a waitlist at the library) and I’m mostly just losing it thinking about how from the perspective of any human in the series, Murderbot is actually the BIGGEST Deus Ex Machina. It’s particularly evident in RP, but it holds up for the whole series: ASR: To all of the survey team members, It’s basically like their normal jobs all of a sudden went to hell BUT luckily for them, their amazon Alexa had already rebelled against its controllers and was capable of saving all their lives. Like there was no way they could have or would have expected that, and in-universe that sequence of events was astronomically unlikely. AC: To Tapan and the rest of the polycule, an incredibly cheap, fantastically competent, unreasonably loyal and helpful security consultant just showed up exactly when they needed it, saved their lives multiple times, and then got their data back, before vanishing into thin air.

RP: This is honestly the biggest one, but like, literally a random SecUnit appeared on an empty station at the exact moment that it needed to to save Abene’s life, followed immediately by it killing a bunch of combat bots and rescuing the team from the security they were supposed to have. And then it just…leaves. Via hull breach.

ES: At this point Pin Lee, Gurathin, and Ratthi do know about MB so it’s more of a Chekhov’s gun to them than a deus ex machina, but it still fits the space in the story from their perspective: their negotiations to get Mensah back have been going nowhere, they’re all feeling pretty hopeless, and then BOOM, the rogue SecUnit which ran off and they haven’t seen in months shows up boasting a bunch of upgrades and a makeover and pretty much handles everything for them.

NE: Again, most of the people in this book are familiar with MB so it’s less deus ex machina to them, but to ART’s crew? They’ve been kidnapped, their ship compromised, possibly in the worst situation they’ve ever been in as a crew, and then Peri’s SecUnit Friend which it found randomly a while back just shows up to get them out of a bad situation. (They don’t know about the alien remnant wormhole drive or the kidnapping at this point there’s honestly no reason for Peri’s SecUnit to even be in the system.) It manages to do this twice simultaneously.

Anyway I’ve said all this before but I just think it’s great, especially because Murderbot totally does not see what all these people must be seeing, which is the most helpful person imaginable wondering in to rescue them over and over again

I will always reblog this

"It's almost scary how good I am!"

It's been a hot minute. Have some nanaki

I feel as if I have severely underestimated how large Stephenson is.

I don't think we give enough credit to how freaked out the PresAux crew must have been when they saw Murderbot without its armor for the first time. Like, they have no reason to even think Murderbot is WEARING armor. They must have assumed it was a bot that just happened to be in the shape of a person wearing armor. And why wouldn't they? Everyone talks about constructs like they're just objects and none of them has ever met a SecUnit before so it makes sense that it's basically a hauler bot in the shape of power armor. Not that they don't appreciate the sentience of hauler bots but theres a world of difference between "this is a suit of armor with hydraulics inside, being piloted by a machine intelligence" and "there is an actual human body inside that suit." No wonder they were so caught up on the fact it had a face.

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

I love the sets in this show

And just look at Atlantis

"Major, I thought you might like to see this." "A lot of the information we downloaded from the data storage device was encrypted, so we're still working on that." "Yeah, I didn't think it would be easy." "But we were able to ascertain the existence of twenty-one Wraith Hive ships just in our quadrant of the Pegasus Galaxy alone." "Twenty-one?" "And there are indications of far more elsewhere in Pegasus." "Well, how many more?" "Well, there's no way of knowing for sure. Perhaps 60 or more." "That's a lot of ships." "Some of them already appear to be on the move." "Toward us?" "That's the part we're still working on."

This is the stuff childhoods are made of

I encountered Thunder Hawk, tha fallen spacecraft from a faraway galaxy, during the spring field trip.

God I wish Metro hadn’t been canned

I see so many comments about trains being the most fucked vehicles in WoC, hello???

Are they blind to the world outside the Untied States?!? There are plenty of cultures that are build around trains. Even the cancelled movie Metro has plenty concept arts showing how much trains take part in society. I don’t know where to begin with trains. There are so many different varieties of trains out there, some trains even participate in SPORTS!!

Bim bowling for example:

A train may be „limited“ compared to a car but that doesn’t make them the worst vehicles to exist in the world of cars!! It can live a happy and fulfilling life in their natural environment.

For better understanding take the railway system in Europe as a example. It is far more dense than the one in the USA.

I don’t blame you for not knowing much about trains, you did nothing wrong here.

I live in a county that have train stations in (almost) every village and city. Most of those stations are directly connected to malls, grocery stores or hospitals. You have access to almost everything without the need for a car. It’s such a shame that this system went down in the US when trains used to be such iconic machines during the Wild West.

Overheard in the office hallway between two older businessmen:

“Don’t you dare pull my shirt up, I have a meeting.”

But it’s so coooool

ドクターイエロー。

favorite thing ever is leaving this gif in Ao3 comment sections

because A: a shocking amount of people don't know abt the 'img src=' trick to add images into comment sections, and B: well over half of the authors seem to really enjoy the sentiment

spotify is raising prices again here's the apk that gives you premium for free

The blorbos, I love them

Didn’t want to spam your ask box, but I realized I was forgetting what I wanted to ask so here it is, maybe. Some of it might’ve been lost.

You mentioned at one point that Ratchet had mobility issues, but not what they were exactly.

Ratchet and Reg are battling to be my favorite, Austin is too similar to me to be my favorite unfortunately.

I can’t help but what to meddle with stories I really like, for instance I want to be a bit of a stalker and send Firestorm a picture of Ratchet in Backwater Downs, maybe with a clue on the back. I feel like that’s a fun idea to mess around with.

Most of Ratchet's mobility issues are in the parts of him that self-repaired instead of being fixed by a mechanic. His Plymouth Fury heritage gives him advanced self-repair, which is what kept him alive (that, and the roll-cage) during and after his crash. The mechanic that fixed him was hesitant to undo the self-repair's work since Ratchet was so precarious. The mechanic also did a lot of jury-rigging work, as Plymouths are a rarity in Australia. Now, his biggest issue is, his parking brake is useless. He can't do big hill starts anymore. Reg often drives behind him so that, if he gets stuck on a hill, he can roll back into Reg and do a normal hillstart. He also slips near cliffs or on beaches, and will roll if he falls asleep on an uneven surface. He can also be physically pushed around even with his brakes on. His left side axles were crimped in the crash and he can't go full lock to the left anymore. He also struggles with offroading, anything more than a dirt track is very difficult for him. He can't race on dirt at all anymore as it puts too much stress on his chassis. His A, B, and C pillars are all dented and were hammered and self-repaired into shape. His eyesight is much poorer than it used to be, and his muteness comes from the same damage. His brain simply can't connect the words and the sounds anymore. The front of his chassis rails are permanently twisted inwards which can feel uncomfortable for him, especially when he's turning hard - again, no offroading. His tailfins are not quite symmetrical anymore and it throws him off his line at high speeds and makes him stray to the right. His headlights also don't work 100% of the time, and his highbeams flicker terribly. The wiring is fucked.

His jaw clicks when he chews. This isn't a mobility issue but it didn't do that before the crash.

Austin I feel like doesn't get the full rep he deserves on here. It's very difficult for me to pack his entire character into a little comic because he has so SO much character. He is motivated by rage for decades and it twists him up inside. He's angry and bitter and anxious and horny and that's his 'good day'. He loves the dead and used to steal parts from graves and upgrade himself without anaesthetic. There is something deeply deeply wrong with him. He's absolutely my favourite because he is so fucked up but he's also so kind and loyal all the time. He would do anything for his friends and partners at the drop of a hat. But he also 100% is waiting for Reg to drop dead so he can take that delicious V10 for himself. And I do mean delicious. Which is to say just remember the version of him you see here is PG rated.

Realistically, Firestorm would never believe a picture of Ratchet (known to him as Ricochet) if he got one. Firestorm's business is perfectly legitimate, but he's not above running illegal stock behind the scenes. His association with Rundown also makes him a lot of enemies even in the criminal underbelly. Rundown has very few allies. So a picture of Ricochet, he'd just take that as an enemies' baiting attempt, albeit one in poor taste. It doesn't matter that the Fury in the photo has Ricochet's funny little twitch in his smile. Doesn't matter that he has matching warbles in his left fender, just like Ricochet had, from Firestorm's first attempt at panelbeating. Doesn't even matter that there's a red-eyed ragtop Hornet in the background, a model of car nearly impossible to find, who has Austin's missing tooth. Firestorm would never take the bait. He might store the photo away and he might lie awake at night, wondering about it, wishing desperately he was younger and more naive and stupid enough to pursue it. But he won't risk his family or his life. He has to make a decision, between chasing ghosts and raising his kids, and as much as it pains him he lets the photo sit in the dark album and gather dust with all the others.

BUT let's play in this for a second. Assuming there's a way to make Firestorm believe this isn't doctored, well, it doesn't matter that Backwater Downs is not even a town name, isn't even on the map. Doesn't matter that Ricochet has been missing for sixty years. Within a month of getting that photo, Firestorm is landing in Darwin International Airport. He storms out, buys a drum of water and drives south into the great flat lands.

Firestorm finding Ricochet is probably the worst way for them to reunite, because it makes Firestorm so incredibly, extremely angry. Sixty years and Ratchet never tried to reach out. Firestorm is so sick and tired of trying to hold his sibs together and he's sick of being forced to watch them drift away, and DIE, from apathy or petty arguments. Also in this timeline, Ratchet feels obliged to explain that he left because Robyn tried to kill him - shot him and everything. That would turn the whole situation into a disaster. The happier versions are when Ratchet comes back to America and reunites with Firestorm. He never reveals Robyn's crime, and he even allows Robyn to apologise to him, though he doesn't forgive her. She did a lot of damage, even if she hadn't meant it maliciously. And Firestorm is so happy to have Ricochet back home, he chooses to gloss over that yawning gap of "why didnt you call or text or write or fax or come home or-" that plays in his head constantly.

Fun fact, when Ratchet reunites with Firestorm, poor Rico gets a "Jr" tacked onto his name. Firestorm called him Junior on occasion, but thisis the first time Rico has to confront the fact he was named after someone that his dad missed dearly. And he hates being a Jr. He immediately tries to race Ratchet for his honour back and he gets his ass kicked. Ratchet then takes him out for beers and ice-cream and Rico Jr decides he has the best uncle in the whole world.

Could you maybe do a mlm dragon with the blue/teal flag please :3

#122 - 斷袖 (duàn xiù / cut sleeves) - When he's willing to cut the sleeve off his shirt to avoid waking you (and you're both boys) 🙈👬💙

Twin turbo Ford Mustang

Honestly, I can’t wait to play the original The Crew again

Money Marge … Save me

Money Marge

Save me Money Marge

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

Shockwave … what even is that alt mode?

He’s so silly

nyooom

You know what you did with that caption

“How the heck d’ya even put these on?! It’s like I’m swimming in bedsheets!” “Very funny. Now quit goofing around before I use your cape to dry my balls.”

Cait Sith trying on his boyfriend’s clothing.